Life Quotes

Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.
– Shawn Johnson
Growing up my whole life, my mom was telling me how incredible and special I was and that I was going to change the world. I think it's important for girls to know that they can change the world, that they do have an impact.
– Ashley Greene
Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.
– Caitlin Rose
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
– Jean de la Bruyere
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.
– Edward Hopper
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.
– John Milton
Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories. I thought, 'Who's choreographing this stuff?'
– Sue Monk Kidd
Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.
– Publilius Syrus
Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.
– Rachael Ray
Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.
– Ian Mckellen
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
– Swami Vivekananda
God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.
– Stevie Wonder
God created the world the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.
– Pat Robertson
God continues to work miracles in my life.
– Willie Aames
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Girlfriend and 100 Percent Fun were my two peeks, around '92 and '96. The reality is that the times I had the most media success, sold lots of records and played bigger shows, I had the least control of my own life.
– Matthew Sweet
Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.
– Jamie Lee Curtis
Getting pregnant wasn't easy, and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I'd always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life.
– Emily Procter
Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
– Samuel Johnson
Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.
– General Robert E. Lee
Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.
– Daisaku Ikeda
Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.
– Taylor Momsen
Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been forced upon you by mass media and the crass culture it creates and maintains. The fact is, gardening is just the opposite - it is, or should be, a central, basic expression of human life.
– Andrew Weil
From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever That dead men rise up never That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
– Algernon Charles Swinburne
From time to time, I'll look back through the personal journals I've scribbled in throughout my life, the keepers of my raw thoughts and emotions. The words poured forth after my dad died, when I went through a divorce, and after I was diagnosed with breast cancer. There are so many what-ifs scribbled on those pages.
– Hoda Kotb
From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.
– Christopher Morley
From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.
– Dirk Benedict
From 7 in the morning to 11 at night, I was reading. I don't think one can find any other time in one's life to be left alone so much to read in peace like that.
– Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
– James F. Byrnes
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
– Elie Wiesel
Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.
– Mitt Romney
Freedom is control in your own life.
– Willie Nelson
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
– Bertrand Russell
Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes.
– Knute Rockne
Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.
– Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.
– William Banting
For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
– Steve Jobs
For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so I'm attracted to good story, writing and character and good people. That's what I'm always searching for and I don't think that's ever going to change.
– John Hawkes
For the first time ever I was taking the family on the road. We stayed with my in-laws, which on life's list of experiences ranks right below sitting in a tub full of scissors.
– Jeff Foxworthy
For the first few years of my life my mom used to cut my hair so there were a lot of bowl-cut hair styles.
– Ne-Yo
For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
For some reason I can't explain, artist and musicians tend to look younger than our age. Being in music, you need this youthful sense of discovery and wonder for what you're doing and keep your imagination open. That's a youthful way of looking at life and I think that reflects in how you age.
– Joshua Bell
For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.
– Patricia Highsmith
For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making plenty of money.
– Louis C. K.
For most of my life, I've thought of myself as pretty cool.
– Nikki Giovanni
For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.
– Christopher Hitchens
For me, Twitter works best as a way of taking pictures of being stuck in traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge. If people really want to read really funny quips about life, parenting, and pop culture, then by all means read Michael Ian Black's tweets.
– Michael Showalter
For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
– Tahar Ben Jelloun
For me, life has either been a wake or a wedding.
– Peter O'Toole
For me, just being how old I am, I know I don't want to be a single mom. I really would rather make it a two-person job. But I've also come to terms with not being a mother at all. I'm actually really good with either direction that my life can take as being a valid experience.
– Lisa Edelstein
For me, first, it's finding quiet in my life - and I do that through yoga and meditation. It's also been a matter of changing the way I eat, because I think what we eat can inform who we are food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent.
– Mariel Hemingway
For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life.
– Jon Fishman
For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April, when everyone had dared to hope. If baseball is a lot like life, as pundits declare, it is because life is more about losing than winning.
– John Thorn
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
– Khalil Gibran
For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
– Jesus Christ
For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.
– Bob Barr
For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make.
– Edward Kennedy
For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal - well, semi-normal.
– Johnny Depp
Food was always a big part of my life. My grandfather was one of 14 kids, and his parents had a pasta factory, so as a kid, he and his siblings would sell pasta door to door. After he became a movie producer, he opened up De Laurentiis Food Stores - one in Los Angeles and one in New York.
– Giada De Laurentiis
Food is a fairly significant aspect of my life. I have struggled mightily with food. With my weight. And I'm conscious of it. So I have a sensitivity to people who struggle with their weight.
– Tom Vilsack
Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.
– Doug Coupland
First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.
– Oksana Baiul
First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.
– Angelina Jolie
Firemen can do almost everything. You already trust them in life-threatening situations why not let them help you with your everyday problems, too?
– David Hunt
Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.
– Mariel Hemingway
Find something in life that you love doing. If you make a lot of money, that's a bonus, and if you don't, you still won't hate going to work.
– Jeff Foxworthy
Find patience in the breath of life.
– Ryunosuke Satoro
Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life.
– Kevin Costner
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.
– George Saunders
Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.
– Felix Adler
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.
– John Henry Newman
Fear is just not a part of my life - so much so that if it's involved in somebody else's life and they're close to me, I won't be around them.
– Jeremy Renner
Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope.
– Mike Huckabee
Fatherhood is the most amazing thing that could ever have happened in my life.
– Corey Feldman
Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in, and what we're going to eat is hotly debated.
– Mindy Kaling
Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.
– Olivia De Havilland
Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.
– Robert Cormier
Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
– Barbara Bush
Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.
– Dan Millman
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
– Mary McLeod Bethune
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
– George Sand
Failure's a natural part of life.
– John Malkovich
Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.
– Matt Emmons
Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life.
– Daniel Kahneman
Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.
– Navjot Singh Sidhu
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all this, too, shall pass.
– Ann Landers
Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.
– Ray Comfort
Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.
– Mel Brooks
Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
– Andre Breton
Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.
– Donna Tartt
Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
– Wallace Stevens
Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.
– Patsy Kensit
Everything has combined to make my life in New York an amazing experience. I told my manager a few years ago that I wanted to move here and try acting in the theater.
– Mariska Hargitay
Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.
– Michael Jackson
Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when you're young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40, and be successful by 40. Whatever success means.
– Paul Feig
Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.
– Sally Kirkland
Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life.
– Aleksa Palladino
Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.
– Tyler Perry
Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.
– Donald Knuth